People

We are a community of students, scholars, and staff who share a dedication to understanding the region more deeply.

Find scholars with specific areas of geographic or historical focus by using the “Location” and “Time Period” pull-downs below—these refer to the places and eras our affiliates study, not the ones in which they live.

And please remember: The views expressed by people affiliated with the Davis Center are as different as the people themselves and do not necessarily reflect institutional positions held by the center.

People

Faculty Associate
Jeremy Friedman is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Fields
Graduate Student Associate
Polina Galouchko is a REECA master's student whose research uses empirical methods to study the political economy of the post-Soviet world and the Western Balkans.
Local Affiliate
Ina Ganguli's primary research areas are labor economics and the economics of science and innovation.
Local Affiliate
Robert Gaspard is an architect and urban researcher working on community-based housing and reintegration strategies for refugees and IDPs in post-war Ukraine.
Alumni
Davit is a graduate of the REECA Master's Program.
Local Affiliate
Slava Gerovitch is a historian of Soviet science and technology.
Graduate Student Associate
Madeleine Giaconia is a Ph.D. student in History of Art and Architecture at Harvard. She studies modernism and empire in Soviet Ukraine and Central Asia.
Local Affiliate
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie is a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry and an award-winning translator.
Sean Gilsdorf is Administrative Director and Lecturer on Medieval Studies, and an affiliate member of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology.